Linux Guide/File Manipulation

ls 

lists all files and directories in the current directory.

mv <file> <to> 

move <file> to destination <to>.

rm <file> 

remove <file>.

cd <dir> 

change the current directory to <dir>.

cat <file> 

concatenate files and show them on standard output, text files work best:)

find [path...] [expression] 

search for files in the given path

xargs <command> 

takes input from stdin and formats it as the arguments to another program. For instance, to delete all files with an ending ~, write find . -name "*~" | xargs rm

Copy file from remote system (rsync)

rsync -ave ssh <remote_server>:<source_path> <dest_dir>

Example:

rsync -ave ssh root@192.168.1.252:/tmp/myfile .